16 Bible Verses about God's Hands In Opposition

Remove Your hand from me,
And let not the dread of You terrify me.

“Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,
For the hand of God has struck me.

“Even today my complaint is rebellion;
His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me;
My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. Selah.

For Your arrows have sunk deep into me,
And Your hand has pressed down on me.

“Remove Your plague from me;
Because of the opposition of Your hand I am perishing.

For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain,
And Moab will be trodden down in his place
As straw is trodden down in the water of a manure pile.

In that day the Egyptians will become like women, and they will tremble and be in dread because of the waving of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which He is going to wave over them.

“So My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will have no place in the council of My people, nor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel, that you may know that I am the Lord God.

“I will also cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod,
And him who holds the scepter, from Ashkelon;
I will even unleash My power upon Ekron,
And the remnant of the Philistines will perish,”
Says the Lord God.

“Though they dig into Sheol,
From there will My hand take them;
And though they ascend to heaven,
From there will I bring them down.

Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and not see the sun for a time.” And immediately a mist and a darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking those who would lead him by the hand.

When Pharaoh does not listen to you, then I will lay My hand on Egypt and bring out My hosts, My people the sons of Israel, from the land of Egypt by great judgments.

“And I will set My glory among the nations; and all the nations will see My judgment which I have executed and My hand which I have laid on them.

Yet He did not stretch out His hand against the nobles of the sons of Israel; and they saw God, and they ate and drank.

It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.